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24 Cookies
I just put 24 cookies in the oven. (Ghirardelli Coffee Dark Chocolate Chip cookies.) Cookies are generally counted in dozens, so 24 is 2 dozen + 4 aka twenty eight. For those of you who don’t deal with non-base-10 number systems, this can be confusing. The digits work the same way base-10 digits do. The…
Yeah, No Quests
Another book with System quests (called “tasks” here). I do not like them. They are too directly manipulative or too trivial. Our intrepid hero (from Proving Grounds: Annals of the Runeguard Book 1) is being targeted by a group of thieves. After some escalation, they kill the blacksmith (Gorman) making him armor and steal it.…
User Pacification Dots
Back in the day, one would type a command into a computer at a prompt and press enter. When that command was complete, the prompt would reappear, awaiting the next command. Sometimes, things would get stuck and the command would not complete. Sometimes, a user would get impatient waiting for a command to complete. The…
